Homophonic translation

homophonic_translation · translation · catalogued

A rendering that follows the sound of the source across a language barrier rather than its sense, producing meaning from mishearing.

Provenance

• Source: Louis Zukofsky and Celia Zukofsky, Catullus (1969)
• Attribution: primary — a named author, work and year this catalogue stands behind
• Checkability: source — decidable against the source text it was made from
• Attested: author-stated — the originator set this rule down

Details

• Kind: both
• Languages: en
• Requires: tokens, phonemes, phonemes.bilingual
• Deterministic: no
• Also known as: sound translation
• In other languages: Homophone Übersetzung (de), Traduction homophonique (fr)

Notes

Blocked: judging that the target sounds like the source across languages needs a phonemes.bilingual capability no pack provides.

Prompt hint

Render the source by its sound rather than its meaning, in the target language.